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Every council in Wales is to receive an extra £10,000 to buy musical instruments for pupils, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has announced.
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Qualifications Wales is looking to commission subject
experts with knowledge, understanding and experience of teaching and/or
assessment for certain subjects.
Digital Pioneers have developed a new mapping
tool for the Digital Competence Framework (DCF). It enables schools to
cross-reference current teaching in subjects and years with elements of the DCF
to show levels of DCF coverage, helping them plan to cover the full range of
skills within each element over the course of a year. The tool will also help
schools to spread DCF coverage more evenly across the school.
Learning Wales user testing
This short
questionnaire will test how well the site is organised and
help us make our documents easier to find. As part of ongoing improvements we
may send out further questionnaires through Dysg. Your input is greatly
appreciated!
We
are looking for committed and capable candidates for the chair and deputy
chairs for the Education Workforce Council Teacher Education Accreditation
Committee (the “board”). Closes 31 March.
Shared a resource into the Hwb Community? Why not apply for the National
Digital Learning Awards 2017. The closing date for applications is Friday 7 April at 4.00pm.
Take
part in the consultation for new professional standards
for teaching and leadership. Find out what the new standards will mean
for you and when they will apply.
Hwb Message Encryption (HME) is one of the three
enhanced controls, outlined in our information security guidance document, which can be used to provide an added layer of security to e-mail. HME
only applies to e-mails which are sent from a Hwbmail account to an external
e-mail account. For more information view the HwbMail
Security Guidance .
Find out more about the tools Hwb has
to offer and see examples of best practice using technology in the classroom. Book your place now for our
summer term HwbMeet events:
- Maesteg - 16 May
- Brecon - 13 June
An international journal for school student
publications in science, natural history, maths, engineering and
entrepreneurship. Inspiring you to carry out projects and publish your
own work, ideas and experiences.
Available
free of charge to schools, individuals and non-commercial organisations by
emailing cymru@rnib.org.uk. The RNIB developed the voices
with the text to speech software company IVONA, with financial assistance from
the Welsh Government. The voices of Geraint a Gwyneth are useful for screen
reading and reading websites and documents out aloud.
This
free app includes the Welsh standardised educational term dictionary Termiadur
Addysg. It’s available for Apple iOS, Android mobile and Kindle. Even when
you’re not online, you can check and translate thousands of the English and
Welsh words you’re likely to need for your school work and homework.
CIWB - editions 15 & 16
For KS3 Welsh Second Language learners - find out more
UK German Connection
Applications close 31 March 2017
UK German Connection are offering summer courses in Germany for pupils (Year 10 and 12) and teachers (as group leaders). . You can apply online using the following links:
This
year’s Awards looks to celebrate the achievements of teachers of German across
the UK. The application window for the Awards closes on 1st May 2017.
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